NOTE ON SAIN OR SAJ. 



Bhamo. In the sea-coast districts it does not appear to go beyond 1,000 

 feet, but on the whole it grows best at 500 to 1,500 feet above the sea. 



,A stiff clay suits.it well but it grows on many other varieties of soil, 

 stunted but in considerable numbers on laterite and in dry stony .Indaing, 

 straight and tall on well-drained ridges with Dendrocalamus strictus 

 and Bambusa polymorpha and in plains forests^ and fairly densely on moist 

 flats. Excellent groups may be found in most of the Pegu Yoma and 

 Upper Burma bamboo and teak forests, containing trees up to 12 feet 

 in girth, with a clear bole of 60 feet and height up to l0 feet, but the 

 size of tree principally in evidence has a girth of 5 to 8 feet. 



Extraction. Except in the dry zone and a few of the more remote 

 divisions, little difficulty will be found in extraction to the Railway or 

 a floating stream, the logs being dragged by buffaloes or elephants from 

 the hills and thence carted. With the, aid of bamboos the timber can be 

 rafted down the Chindwin or the Irrawaddy as well as smaller streams, 

 and it is still to be found in Upper Burma close to the banks of these 

 rivers in large quantities. No extraction is done by Government, and in 

 nearly all the Government Reserves, trees will be marked to suit the con- 

 venience of purchasers, the duty never totalling more than R6 per tree. 

 In unreserved forests also little restriction is placed on extraction, except 

 in some districts where the best trees in the easily accessible forests have 

 all been felled. The amount extracted up to date cannot be correctly 

 estimated, no separate records for this timber having been kept, but an 

 ample supply is still available in all the divisions named in the table 

 below. A few estimates of quantities in the forests obtained from their 

 Working-Plans are given below. In most districts will be found traders 

 who are well acquainted with the best method of arranging for the ex- 

 traction of timber to a floating or railway, station and the purchaser can 

 always get into touch with them through the divisional officers whose ad- 

 dress is given in the table below. Divisions in which extraction is very 

 difficult are not entered. The log referred to "in the table measures over 

 4' 6" in mid-girth without bark and may be of any length that the 

 buffaloes and carts can manage. The ton represents 50 cubic feet in the 

 round, unless " converted " is entered. The figures given under local 

 market rates and rates for delivery are in many cases only estimates, 

 the timber having been little extracted up to date over the greater part of 

 Burma. The duty must usually be added, but it is hardly ever more 

 than &% per ton for round logs, and R4 per ton for sawn timber. 



